Apparently we're all going to die from Swine Flu in the US before we go broke.
Dammit, if only bacon didn't taste so wonderful - looks like it was a bad day to give up being Kosher (or Muslim for that matter.)
A brief message to Governor Rick Perry of Texas - guess you picked a fine time to talk of secession.
Let's see how long it takes to get that call back from Washington about federal aid to deal with the upcoming pandemic.
Ulysses S. Grant would have been 187 today.
And if the rumors are true, he is still buried in Grant's Tomb.
It's the last shopping day before Saddam Hussein's birthday!
Check to see if Macy's is running their Memorial Tyrant's Day sale.
Today in History:
April 27, 4977 BC -
Today should have been Earth Day,
God creates the universe, according to calculations by mystic and part-time astronomer Johannes Kepler.
April 27, 1509 -
The entire state of Venice is excommunicated by Pope Julius II for an entirely secular reason:
the refusal to place parts of Romagna under the Pope's control.
Oh, those wacky Pre-counterreformation Popes.
April 27, 1521 -
In an hour long battle with Philippine islanders, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his men are repeatedly jabbed with sharpened bamboo spears. After Magellan finally succumbs to his wounds, the natives hack him to pieces with their swords, barbecued and consumed him.
They were surprised that they were not hungry an hour after eating him as they had been after eating some Asian explorers previously.
April 27, 1861 -
In a blatantly unconstitutional act, President Abraham Lincoln suspends habeas corpus inside a zone between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. The government may now detain citizens indefinitely without ever filing charges. A year and a half later, Lincoln expands the scope of his order to the entire nation.
If you're like me, I'm sure that you are greatly relieved that the previous resident of the White House didn't read much history.
April 27, 1865 -
The worst steamship disaster in the history of the United States occurs on this date. The 'Sultana', carrying approximately 2,300 passengers, the majority being freed Union POWs from the notorious Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons, exploded in Mississippi River, while en route to Cairo, Illiois.
Neither the cause of the explosion nor the final count of the dead (estimated at between 1,450 and 2,000) was ever determined. Today, the 'Sultana' disaster remains the worst of its kind .
Talk about bad luck.
April 27, 1871 -
The American Museum of Natural History opened to the public in New York City, New York. With a series of exhibits, the Museum’s collection went on view for the first time in the Central Park Arsenal, the Museum’s original home, on the eastern side of Central Park.
The museum began from the efforts of Albert Smith Bickmore, one-time student of Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, who was successful in his proposal to create a natural history museum in New York City, New York, with the support of William E. Dodge, Junior, Theodore Roosevelt, Senior, Joseph Choate, and J. Pierpont Morgan. The Governor of New York, John Thompson Hoffman, signs a bill officially creating the American Museum of Natural History on April 6, 1869.
April 27,1963 -
Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested in Miami for illegal possession of hypodermic needles.
They were, however, for legally-prescribed prescription drugs.
Apr 27 1986 -
Someone interrupts the HBO satellite feed during the movie The Falcon and The Snowman. For five minutes, two-thirds of their customer base receives the message: Good evening HBO from Captain Midnight. $12.95 a month?
No way! (Showtime-Movie Channel Beware.) Three months later, the FCC arrests Florida satellite dish retailer John R. MacDougall for the crime.
Apr 27 1987 -
After determining that Kurt Waldheim had "assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of persons" during his Nazi years, the Department of Justice places him on a watch list of undesirable aliens. As such, the sitting President of Austria is disallowed entry into the U.S. It is the first time that a foreign head of state is legally forbidden from visiting America.
I suppose that he suffered from Waldheimer's Disease - it's when you have difficulty recalling that you're a Nazi
And so it goes
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